There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

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

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

History is the zoology of the human race.

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