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.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.