Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return