Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now..

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft..

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

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 ….

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 wh….

Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended mo….

Time is the wisest counselor of all..

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial..

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength..

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..

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

In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of o….

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

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..

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

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you..

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet..

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in….

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation….

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 f….

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit..