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

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

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

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.