How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

You are what you do repeatedly.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.