The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?