the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda