My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

Prose talks and poetry sings.