I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

In art, the best is good enough.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.