If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.