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

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

I didn’t squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn’t see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.

Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.