Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

The real genres: good and bad.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?