In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

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.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.