Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.