Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.
Nobody ever says, can I have your beets?
Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Parents are not interested in justice — They want quiet !
Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health; but pleasantest is it to win what we love.
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.
Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic.
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: The wife is in charge.
Love is the great conqueror of lust.