No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

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

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.