“The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.”

Love is the reward of love.

Weep, for the light is dead.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Fear of death is worse than dying.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Modest humility is beauty’s crown.

What’s old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

Stubbornness is not firmness.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Have Faith. Where’er thy bark is driven, – The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth, – Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

History is the landmark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we worked to live gloriously.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement’s destiny, that nation’s destiny, that race’s destiny.