The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

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

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.