She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.