We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy.

It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be...

Be happy for what you have not for what you should have.

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.