Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

Was that life? Well then, once more!

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.