A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.