"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."

"Churton Collins ... was certainly not the man to grow enthusiastic over every " new thing " that might might loom abo…"

"It is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the time are decided – that was the big mi…"

"Most of what the men of 1848 fought for was brought about within a quarter of a century, and the men who accomplished…"

"1848 was the decisive year of German, and so of European, history: it recapitulated Germany's past and anticipated Ge…"

"The peasants of central Europe also had their social discontents, particularly in Austria where they still lived unde…"

"Nationalism was the great common factor in the central European revolutions of 1848. Indeed it was a spirit never to …"

"Wer Dankbarkeit fordert, verdient keine."

""Dass es uns lange gut geht, stösst gegen die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung. Wir werden gar nicht geboren zum Glück. Da…"

"Der Maler und der Beschauer vollenden zusammen ein Bild. Es ist ein Unterschied zwischen vollenden und fertig machen."