Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

The real genres: good and bad.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.