Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

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

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

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

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.