Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Well begun is half done.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
The law is reason, free from passion.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
