Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.