Wit is educated insolence.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

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

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

Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's...

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.

learner should not command things.

man is the master gardener of his soul. he is the director of his life.