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.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.