The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

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

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.