The world is full of contradiction.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.