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

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.