I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
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