"For the female is more compassionate than the male, and more easily moved to tears, and more jealous, and more querulous, and more apt to scold and to strike."

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

"It is clear that the best state is that in which the middle class is in control, and that those states are likely to be well-administered, in which the middle class is large, and stronger than both th…"

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."

"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."