For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.