The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

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.

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.