In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.