They who are to be judges must also be performers.
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.