Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.