Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.