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!
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
