Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

Medicine: "Your money and your life!

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.