"For we are a city that is open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner from our midst, nor do we prevent anyone from learning or seeing anything, provided that by so doing he does not harm the st…"

"Wealth is with us rather an opportunity for action than a subject for boasting."

"Indeed, if I have any superiority, it is this: that I am better able than others to discern what is to be done, and to explain it."

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."

"For we are a model to others, not imitators."