Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

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

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

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

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.