When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The quality of a life is determined by its activities.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.