Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.