Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.