It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.