Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

The first way to lose a state is to neglect the art of war; the first way to gain a state is to be skilled in the art of war.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

“You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?”