Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.