41 Quotes by Berthold Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.