No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.