Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others of what they know

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror, with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea