Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine