"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."
"Hope is a waking dream."
"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."
"Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age."
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."