I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.

It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.