“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Philosophy can make people sick.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

We do not suffer by accident.

There is nothing that is an accident.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.