Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

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

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

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?