"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."
"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."
"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."
"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."