People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?