Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.