Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.