He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

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

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.