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.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.