The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

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

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.