Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.