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

An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all.

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

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

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.

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

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.