A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

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.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.