The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

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!

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

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

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.