I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

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

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.