I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

All things in moderation, including moderation.

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

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

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

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.