"Actions speak louder than words." So runs the old saw; nevertheless, a single phrase has often served to make a man famous, and many well-known personages are readily remembered through especially striking or appropriate utterances.

How many readers will be able to credit the following to the proper sources?

1. "I am the greatest historian that ever lived."
2. "All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother."
3. "I would rather men should ask why my statue is not set up than why it is."
4. "My infant son rules his mother; his mother rules me; I rule the Athenians; the Athenians rule the Greeks; the Greeks rule Europe, and Europe rules the world."
5. "Though I have the arm of a woman, I have the heart of a King, and am ready to pour out my blood."
6. "Here lies one whose name is writ in water."
7. "Where liberty is not, there is my country."
8. "Circumstances! I make circumstances!"
9. "As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came."
10. "The world is my parish."
11. "With my sword by my side and Homer in my pocket, I hope to carve my way through the world."
12. "My country is the world: my countrymen are mankind."
13. "I am called the richest monarch in the Christian world; the sun in my dominion never sets."
14. "I am the State."
15. "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it."
16. "If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms—never! never! never!"
17. "I came, I saw, I conquered."
18. "I could lie down like a tired child and weep away the life of care which I have borne, and yet must bear."
19. "I awoke one morning and found myself famous."
20. "Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter."

1. Edward Gibbon.
2. Abraham Lincoln.
3. Cato.
4. Themistocles.
5. Queen Elizabeth.
6. John Keats.
7. Thomas Paine.
8. Napoleon Bonaparte.
9. Alexander Pope.
10. Wesley.
11. Napoleon Bonaparte.
12. Wm. Lloyd Garrison.
13. Charles V.
14. Louis XIV.
15. John Gay.
16. Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham.
17. Julius CÆsar.
18. Percy B. Shelley.
19. Lord Byron.
20. Martin Luther.