The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

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

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.