One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

Anybody can get hit over the head.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.