“True friendship can exist only between equals.”

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Women’s property has been taxed, equally with that of men’s, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.