Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

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.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

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

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.