To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

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

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!