Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.