The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.