A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

History is the zoology of the human race.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.