Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

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

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.