Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.

As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.

When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.