Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Freedom exists only with power.
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
Man is an imitative creature.