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.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

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.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

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

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.