That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Little pools of water tend to become stagnant and useless, but if they are joined together to form a big lake, the atmosphere is cooled and there is universal benefit.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Man is by nature a political animal.