To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

Happiness is activity.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.