An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.