You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.