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

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

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.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.