I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.