Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

A love that dies has never lived.

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

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.