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.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.