Hirsch calls goods like these positional goods, because how likely anyone is to get them depends upon his position in society.
You were born to be amazing.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
It is always healthy to be honest.
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.