What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

A love that dies has never lived.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

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

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.