Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.