Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

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.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.