Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

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

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

Reword and its an Innovation. Irony

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.