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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Change in all things is sweet.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Only on the third class tourist class passengers’ deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.