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

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.

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

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.

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

Time is the wisest counselor of all.