The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.