In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

You have immense power--power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible.

Every single dayI find it hard to sayI could be yours aloneYou will see somedayThat all along the wayI was yours to hold.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Forgot what you think and remember what you feel.

Well-being is not the goal

People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

Sleeping is very underrated.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.