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

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.