"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."

"Women and children are to be common; and no parent is to know his own child, nor any child his parent."

"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are."

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"The general principle of the state, that of justice, is for everyone to do their own business and not to be a busybody."