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.

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

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

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

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

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

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.