Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.