No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.