It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.