The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.