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.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

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

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.