Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

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

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.