The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.