The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.