The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of out own existence.

Well begun is half done.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.