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.

I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons

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

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

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

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.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.