The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.