“The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”

“Can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?”

“Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead,Through which the living Homer begged his bread ...”

“Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.”

“Love, and you are a success whether or not the world thinks so. The highest purpose of Christianity--which is primarily a way of life, not a system of belief--is to love one another.”

“With purpose to be dressed in an opinion of wisdom gravity profound conceit as who should say 'I am Sir Oracle and when I ope my lips let no dog bark.' 1.1”

“War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.”