A love that dies has never lived.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

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.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.