- If you are walking down the right path and you are willing to keep walking, eventually you will make progress.

- Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

- A friend to all is a friend to none.

- A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

- All men by nature desire knowledge.

- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We dont act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we have those because we have acted rightly.

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

- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

- He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views

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

- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

- Quality is not an act, it is a habit

- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

- The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

- There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

- When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

- All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

- First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

- God has entrusted me with myself.

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