Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

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