Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.