Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.