Aristotle

"Nature abhors a vacuum."

"The young should be made to feel as much as possible the dignity of work."

"Temperance is a mean state of the soul, and fortitude too."

"The most painful state is remembering the future, especially the one you'll never have."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Memory is a residue of sensation."

"The true state of affairs is that we must teach wisdom, and acquire it for ourselves."

"To say nothing is to say nothing wrong... but also nothing right."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."

"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

"The greatest thing of human size is to do something which will last."

"Beauty depends on size and symmetry."

"There is honor in being a dog."

"The virtues are mean states between vices."

"Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history."

"Misfortune shows those that are not really friends."

"Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young."