Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

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

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.