We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.