How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
E. T. A. HoffmannNot a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
E. T. A. HoffmannIs it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E. T. A. Hoffmann