"The English are a nation of consummate..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.”

“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”

“The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.”

“Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.”

“This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.”

“Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.”

“And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.”

“Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.”

“The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.”