Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

One truly understands only what one can create.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Understanding arises through making

Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

In His will, our peace.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

God has made all men to be happy.

Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

I don't look at money as success. I look at it as an avenue to freedom.

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.