Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

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

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

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

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.