German diligence is actually endurance.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

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.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.