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.

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.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

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.

While we read history we make history.

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

Happiness is speechless.