Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

People generally despise where they flatter.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.