Art takes nature as its model.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.