There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.