The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.