Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

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.

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.

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.