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

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.