Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.