Character is revealed through action.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.