I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

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

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.