The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.