German diligence is actually endurance.

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

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.