We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

No great thing is created suddenly.

It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.