Art Takes Nature As Its Model.

Bad People...are In Conflict With Themselves; They Desire One Thing And Will Another, Like The Incontinent Who Choose Harmful Pleasures Instead Of What They Themselves Believe To Be Good.

Youth Is Easily Deceived Because It Is Quick To Hope.

Where It Is In Our Power To Act, It Is Also In Our Power To Not Act.

The Art Of Wealth-getting Which Consists In Household Management, On The One Hand, Has A Limit; The Unlimited Acquisition Of Wealth Is Not Its Business. And Therefore, In One Point Of View, All Riches Must Have A Limit; Nevertheless, As A Matter Of Fact, We Find The Opposite To Be The Case; For All Getters Of Wealth Increase Their Hard Coin Without Limit.

Those Who Assert That The Mathematical Sciences Say Nothing Of The Beautiful Or The Good Are In Error. For These Sciences Say And Prove A Great Deal About Them; If They Do Not Expressly Mention Them, But Prove Attributes Which Are Their Results Or Definitions, It Is Not True That They Tell Us Nothing About Them. The Chief Forms Of Beauty Are Order And Symmetry And Definiteness, Which The Mathematical Sciences Demonstrate In A Special Degree.