Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.