In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

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.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

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.

Better die standing than live kneeling.