They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

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

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.