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

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.