Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil. Human, All Too Human

"Gregor converted his success at work straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the benefit of his astonished and delighted family." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

"The Poet had, who had made a show of attaching no importance to this literary game (though it gnawed at his heart that he himself had not written such beautiful letters, provoking replies even more beautiful), and having no one with whom to fall in love, had fallen in love with the letters themselves — which, as Niketas remarked with a smile — was not surprising, since in youth we are prone to fall in love with love. Baudolino

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. Mansfield Park