Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.