Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.