The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

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

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

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.

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

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.