A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

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

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.