“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”

“We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.”

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”

“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

“We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.”