To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.