One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.