Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

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

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.

German diligence is actually endurance.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.