No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.