Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
True invective requires great imagination.
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.