“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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.