When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.