“We live in our desires rather than in our achievements”

“Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!”

“The difficulty of life is in the choice.”

“So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.”

“Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be e...”

“Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.”