It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

There is not a moment without some duty.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.