No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

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

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

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