Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

A man is the origin of his action.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.