Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

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

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

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