The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.