Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of th…

A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will real…

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

But Argos can do without the house of Atreus. Ancient houses are not eternal.