The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.