"Imagine a dog tied to a cart. If the dog wants to follow, it follows, adding its own will to the inevitable. But if the dog refuses to follow, it will be dragged along anyway."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but do not sell it for a small price."

"If a man has a bad character, he is bad for himself; if he has a good character, he is good for himself."

"It is a universal law — have no illusion — that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest."