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

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.