The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.