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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelNothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelWomen do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelThe two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel