To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.