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

Happiness is a state of activity.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.