Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.