Aristotle

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.

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.