Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.