In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

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

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.