Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

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.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.