Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

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

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.