Wit is educated insolence.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

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

For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.