The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.