Günther Oettinger

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

Consequences are unpitying.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

All successful men have agreed in one thing – they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.