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

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

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

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 recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.