The faith that stands on authority is not faith. |
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. |
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. |
The finished man of the world must eat every apple once. |
The first and last lesson of religion is: 'The things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.' |
The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. |
The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. |
The first wealth is health. |
The force of character is cumulative |
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. |
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. |
The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human'. |
The fundaments of a person are not in substance, but in spirits. |
The future belongs to those who prepare for it. |
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. |