Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.
Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.
Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.
Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.
Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
