A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

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 not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.