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.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.