To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

He who hath many friends hath none.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.