The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
Adventure is worthwhile.
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.