“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.”

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”

“We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.”