What is the best government? That which 10 teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe.
What is the best in the world? Healthy blood, sinews of steel, and strong nerves. Auerbach.
What is the body when the head is off? 3 Hen. VI., v. 1.
What is the city but the people? True, the people are the city. Coriolanus, iii. 1.
What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility. Lavater.
What is the good of fear? The whole solar 15 system were it to fall together about our ears could kill us only once. Carlyle.
What is the highest secret of victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. W. R. Alger.
What is the majority? Majority is nonsense (Unsinn). Understanding has always been only with the minority. Schiller.
What is the true test of character, unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction, of daily life? Goethe.
What is the use of a lamp to a blind man, although it be burning in his hand? Hitopadesa.