Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

The greatest victory is over self.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.