There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

Beauty is a gift of God.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.