How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Be true to thine own self.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.