The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.