In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.