A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.