It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

There is no illness of the body except for the mind

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

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.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.