Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

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

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

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

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.