The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.