A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Education is the best provision for old age.