Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.