The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.