If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.