The Germans, a race eager for war.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!