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

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

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.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.