I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.