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

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

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

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.