The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

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.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.