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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

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Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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