An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.