The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

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

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.