Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.