The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.