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.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.