When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.