Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

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

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.