If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.  

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Happiness is activity.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

To love someone is to identify with them.

Wit is educated insolence.

We cannot learn without pain.

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

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The actuality of thought is life.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotism.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.