Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.