Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.