He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

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

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

History is the zoology of the human race.