What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.