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

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.