When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.