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

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

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

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.