It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.