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.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.