This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

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