Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.
Man cannot choose his duties.
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
A good horse makes short miles.
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.