You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

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

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.