A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

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

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.