- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
- 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.
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
- A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman & however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
- Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
- Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
- Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
- Entire ignorance is not so terrible as too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
- For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
- Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
- If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
- The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
- He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- If you wish to be a writer, write.
- It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
- One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
- Only the educated are free.
- The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.