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

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.