"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."

"All men by nature desire knowledge."

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

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

"Anyone can become angry — that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — this is not easy."

"Things are remembered together when they are similar, contrast or appear together contiguous."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit."