Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

A world without love would be no world.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.