Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.