The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.