The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.