Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.