The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.