We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.