People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

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

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.