Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.