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

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

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

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

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

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

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