Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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.

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

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.