It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.