Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

Glory is never where virtue is not.
[Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]

Glory is never where virtue is not.
[Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so read more

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any read more

The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.