Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

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

German diligence is actually endurance.