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

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

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

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.