Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.