Character is inured habit.
I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Words will build no walls.
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.