Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

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

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

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

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.