These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.