Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

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

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

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.