Work first, and then rest.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Order and system are nobler things than power.