You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
While we teach, we learn.
The best ideas are common property.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.