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.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

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