I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.