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

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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