The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.