Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.