Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Servants honor their master by their service.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.