A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

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

A love that dies has never lived.

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

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.