The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.