It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.