Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.