A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle..

While we read history we make history..

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose..

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows..

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world..

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years..

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental godd….

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!".

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage..

Happiness is speechless..

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accompl….

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom..

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like wo….

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge..

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander..

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning..

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong..

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conq….

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the….

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be..