I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

I live, which is the main point.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.