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

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

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

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.