It is good insofar as it is not evil.
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.