Aims

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

Our ideals are our better selves

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge

Small projects need much more help than great ones

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable

As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desire

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do