A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.