Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
I wish I knew the good of wishing.
If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna.
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.
Better be happy than wise.
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible.
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
Keep breathing.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.