It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

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.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.