"Oh, wonderfully beautiful is God’s earth, and worthy of being delighted in! therefore shall I, till I am changed into ashes, rejoice in this beautiful earth!"

"Strew the way with roses, forgetting every ill! a short span of time is measured out to us. To-day the frolicsome boy joins the dance in the spring-time of life; to-morrow the chaplet of the dead waves over his grave.To-day sees the young bride conducted with joy to the altar; before the evening’s dews are spread, she rests on her bier: give then grief and moping care to the wind that passes; beneath this beechen grove drain the jingling glasses."

"Give me love and contentment that I may proclaim thy glory, Lord of earth; give me health with competence, a pious heart, and a steadfast mind; give me children, worthy of all care; scare from my cheerful hearth the foe away; then give me wings, and one small hill of sand in my loved Fatherland, give wings to the soul so unwilling to flee, that it may easily tear itself from this beautiful world."

"Happy the man who has escaped from the town! Every whispering of the tree, every murmuring of the stream, every sparkling pebble, preaches to him virtue and wisdom.Every shady grove is to him a holy temple, where his God waves nearer to him; every green sod an altar, where he kneels before the Lofty One."

"Who stops the flight of the hours? They rush on like the arrows of God! Every second stroke hurries us nearer to our deathbed, nearer to the iron sleep of death!No spring blooms for thee, when thou art dead; no shadow is cast, no clanging of bowls, no pleasant smiles of maidens, no jests from the lips of friends!As yet the black wings of death rustle not! Therefore seize pleasures, ere the storm carries them off, which God scatters like sunshine and rain from his urn!"

"Love makes the hovel to he a golden palace, scatters dancing and play over the wilderness, uncovers to us the light traces of the Divinity, gives us a foretaste of heaven!"

"Practise ever truth and uprightness till the cold grave, and deviate not a finger’s breadth from God’s ways! Then wilt thou, as on a green meadow, go through thy pilgrimage of life; then canst thou without fear and dread look death in the face.Then will the sickle and the plough be light in thy hand; then canst thou sing over the water-jug, as if it were filled with wine. But to the scoundrel is everything full of trouble, do what he may: the devil drives him to and fro, leaving him no rest.The beautiful spring smiles not for him, the fields of corn wave not with joy for him; he is a lover of lies and deceit, he cares for nothing but gold; the wind in the wood, the leaf on the tree, whisper horror to his heart; he finds no rest in the grave after life is over."

"The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research have come new knowledge, techniques and instruments which have enabled some bedridden invalids to walk, the totally deaf to hear, the voiceless to talk, and, in the foreseeable future, may even make it possible for the blind to "see.""

"...the anachronistic conception that Greece and Rome alone should be considered sources of culture for us, and that therefore they must remain for all time the focal point of historical-philological research. [Classicists] still practice that orthodox philology, which claims and possesses an influence, which it has not for a long time deserved, [and] that intolerant onesidedness which only accords the oriental sciences a hearing in so far as they are related to the history and culture of Greece, but otherwise are blind and want to be blind to the enormous field of Asian knowledge, which has brought us into contact with the modern world. [They are still beholden to] that real “unworldliness” in the scholarly sense, which takes no part in the widened historical conceptions of our day. Those are the forces with which Orientalistik has always had to struggle, and which today too block Sinology’s path, ... And added to this is another fact, that one ought to think, should offer [Sinology] a leg up, but actually because of the weirdness of our academic [canons of] scientificness hinders it; and that is its vital connection with the present. If Sinology only had to do exclusively with a long finished, ruined and then re-excavated culture, then perhaps there would be a possibility of finding grace in the eyes of the philological right-thinkers. .."

"What will this Europe be for the Orient in the future? A band of swindlers and oppressors, without honor, without shame!"

"But instead of Cantor admitting the independence or at least the relative independence of the Indians, i.e. the independence of their geometry from the Greeks, he expresses himself extremely tortuous, even he did not give up his Heron hypothesis by hiding it behind the doubtful question at the end, whether there are not at the end in the Sulbasutras relatively modern insertions."

"For Egypt, in my opinion, the one fact of experience was sufficient that there was a right-angled triangle 4, 3, 5. Then Pythagoras took the matter geometrically in hand and proved the theorem named after him by ascending in ancient Greek manner from individual case to individual case, finally to the quite general theorem. (Cantor 1905: 70)."

"[…] should it […] boil down to the fact that individual parts of the Sulbasutras are relatively modern interpolations?"

"Therefore, we do not doubt for a moment that Pythagoras’ stay in Egypt, that the lessons he received from the priests there, were among the things that were common truth."

"So much appears certain to us, that Pythagoras could have been in Babylon."

"Some of the things, which belong particularly to the history of mathematics, we will not refrain from attributing to Pythagoras himself. Among them is the Pythagorean theorem, which we want to preserve under all circumstances. (Cantor 1880: 129)"

"Pythagoras remarked, we think, that 9+16=25. When he made this under all circumstances interesting remark, he already knew, no matter from which source, the experienced fact that a right angle is constructed by assuming the measure numbers 3, 4, 5 for the lengths of the two legs and for the distance of the end points of the same. We have pointed out that the Egyptians and the Babylonians perhaps possessed the same knowledge that the Chinese certainly had (Cantor 1880: 153)"

"Pythagoras, so we tried to prove, certainly acquired mathematical knowledge in Egypt, perhaps in the Euphrates countries. The former can be seen from the explicit traditions, as well as from the Egyptian character of some geometrical developments, the latter from the Babylonian seeming number differences of the Pythagoreans. The sum of geometrical knowledge, which was made accessible by Pythagoras and his school to the Greeks before the year 400, is not quite a minor one [...] It included the Pythagorean theorem […]. (Cantor 1880: 158)"

"It is hardly conceivable that these writers [Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskaracharya etc.], should have been unacquainted with the Greek sources, which were available to Varahamihira [the earliest of these writers]; it is even less conceivable that they [the Indian writers], acquainted with the same, did not let themselves be influenced by them [the Greek sources]. Thus, it is again a conclusion to be assumed in advance, only waiting for a confirmation, that Greek mathematics had brought its traces into those Indian works."

"Cantor concludes that Indian geometry and Greek geometry, especially of Heron, are related; and the only question is, Who borrowed from whom? He expresses the opinion that the Indians were, in geometry, the pupils of the Greeks."

"Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt, Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze Brüderlich zusammenhält. Von der Maas bis an die Memel, Von der Etsch bis an den Belt, Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt!"

"Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit Für das deutsche Vaterland! Danach laßt uns alle streben Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand! Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit Sind des Glückes Unterpfand – Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes, Blühe, deutsches Vaterland!"

"Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue, Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang."