One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

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

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].