Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

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.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.