A well begun is half ended.

Anger

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Character

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Democracy

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

Education

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Excess

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Honesty

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Immortality

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Lies and Lying

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Medicine

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Nations

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Planning

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Slander

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

Teachers and Teaching

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Truth

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Wealth

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Worry

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.