Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

There is always something new coming out of Africa.

That which is excellent endures.