Talent is culture with insolence.
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.