“ Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. ”
“ Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ”
“ Education is the best provision for old age. ”
“ At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst. ”
“ If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ”
“ Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. ”
“ The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ”
“ Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Well begun is half done. ”
“ It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. ”
“ 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 aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ”
“ Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ”
“ All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. ”
“ Change in all things is sweet. ”
“ Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ”
“ The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ”