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

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Nothing is what rocks dream about