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| Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. | | Uncategorized | |
| Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once | | Beauty | |
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| Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. | | Uncategorized | |
| Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. | | Uncategorized | |
| But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end. | | Nature | |
| Change in all things is sweet. | | Change | |
| Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids | | Character | |
| Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. | | Uncategorized | |
| Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues | | Uncategorized | |
| Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing | | Criticism | |
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| Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. | | Uncategorized | |
| Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. | | Democracy; Equality; Politics | |
| Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. | | Democracy | |
| Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. | | Uncategorized | |
| Different men seek happiness in different ways and by different means. | | Uncategorized | |
| Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. | | Uncategorized | |
| Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. | | Dignity; Honor | |
