Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

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

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

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.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

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