What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd rather have been talking.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuo…

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural w…

There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't u…