"Rightness in our choice of an end..." - Quote by Aristotle

“Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.”

“Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.”

“Fortune favours the bold.”

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

“Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.”

“If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?”

“Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.”

“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

“When you choose a habit, you also choose the end of that habit.”