Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'