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.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

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

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.