The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.