Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.