Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more cer…

- Theodor Fontane

Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday …

- Theodor Fontane

Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent and clever, is …

- Theodor Fontane

Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.

- Theodor Fontane