I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!