The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born

I think there's a tremendous influence on the community.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.