How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

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?

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.