Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested 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.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.