In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.