"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in …"

"What does it mean to be a philosopher? It means to be able to say, 'I have seen the world, and I have found it good.'"

"It's not what you get, but what you give that determines your true worth."