Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

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.

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.