We Deliberate Not About Ends, But About

The Aim Of Art Is To Represent Not The Outward Appearance Of Things, But Their Inward Significance.

If The Consequences Are The Same It Is Always Better To Assume The More Limited Antecedent, Since In Things Of Nature The Limited, As Being Better, Is Sure To Be Found, Wherever Possible, Rather Than The Unlimited.

Wit Is Cultured Insolence.

Excellence Or Virtue Is A Settled Disposition Of The Mind That Determines Our Choice Of Actions And Emotions And Consists Essentially In Observing The Mean Relative To Us ... A Mean Between Two Vices, That Which Depends On Excess And That Which Depends On Defect.

To Be Conscious That We Are Perceiving Or Thinking Is To Be Conscious Of Our Own Existence.