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

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

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.

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

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

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

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.