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

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.