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

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

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

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.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

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.