If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.