"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.