wisdom Quotes

Law is mind without reason.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.