Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.