Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

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