💬 Quotes

"God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."

"My father was of the tribe of Judah, a prince among his people; and I am Judah Ben-Hur."

"Mercy is the attribute of kings, but it is also the attribute of God, and it belongs to those who seek Him."

"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, first that you make thieves and then punish them?"

"Gold and silver, of which money is made, are so treated that no man values them higher than their true worth; and who does not see that they are far inferior to iron in usefulness?"

"They [the Utopians] define virtue to be a living according to Nature, and think that to this we are bound by God."

"It is not possible that all things should be well, unless all men were good, which I think will not be these many years."

"They wonder much that any man should take so much pleasure in the light of a small twinkling star, when he might behold the sun all day long."

"Where possessions are private, where money measures all things, and all men, however good they may seem, live on the footing of a commonwealth only by name, the public good is swallowed up in private interest."

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."

"The German language, indeed, seems to me a sink of Cimmerian darkness."

"To catch the reader's attention, a man should start out with a bow of a sort that leaves him in no doubt what he's about."

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."

"The memories of a great grief are sometimes as sweet as the memories of a great joy."

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

"Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln."

"Der Krieg ist von Natur aus das, was man einen Chamäleonartigen nennt, weil er in jedem konkreten Fall seine Natur ein wenig ändert."

"Es gibt im Kriege eine gewaltige Reibung, die man sich auf der Landkarte nicht so leicht vorstellt, die aber die Maschinerie des Krieges hemmt und ins Stocken bringt."

"Der Mut ist kein militärischer Zweck an sich, sondern er ist das Fundament aller militärischen Tugenden."

"Im Kriege ist alles einfach, aber das Einfachste ist schwer."