People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.