I never allowed my fear to limit me.
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
All men love themselves.
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them. . . with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.
You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.