The Things Best To Know Are First

Speech Is The Representation Of The Mind, And Writing Is The Representation Of Speech.

Our Virtues Are Voluntary (and In Fact We Are In A Sense Ourselves Partly The Cause Of Our Moral Dispositions, And It Is Our Having A Certain Character That Makes Us Set Up An End Of A Certain Kind), It Follows That Our Vices Are Voluntary Also; They Are Voluntary In The Same Manner As Our Virtues.

The Energy Of The Mind Is The Essence Of Life.

When The Storytelling Goes Bad In A Society, The Result Is Decadence.

Republics Decline Into Democracies And Democracies Degenerate Into Despotisms.