The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.

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

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

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

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?