Fancy Brings Us As Many Vain Hopes

Only What We Have Wrought Into Our Character During Life Can We Take With Us.

One Must Not Consider A Language As A Product Dead, And Formed But Once; It Is An Animate Being, And Ever Creative. Human Thought Elaborates Itself With The Progress Of Intelligence; And Of This Thought Language Is A Manifestation. An Idiom Cannot Therefore Remain Stationary; It Walks, It Develops, It Grows Up, It Fortifies Itself, It Becomes Old, And It Reaches Decrepitude.

Absolutely Nothing Is So Important For A Nation's Culture As Its Language.

The Sea Has Been Called Deceitful And Treacherous, But There Lies In This Trait Only The Character Of A Great Natural Power, Which, To Speak According To Our Own Feelings, Renews Its Strength, And, Without Reference To Joy Or Sorrow, Follows Eternal Laws Which Are Imposed By A Higher Power.

I Am More And More Convinced That Our Happiness Or Our Unhappiness Depends Far More On The Way We Meet The Events Of Life Than On The Nature Of Those Events Themselves.