To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

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