God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even….

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth..

The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling..

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. Th….

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above..

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so ….

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means..

No author is a man of genius to his publisher..

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mo….

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind..

God will pardon: That's His business..

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything..

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented..

I live, which is the main point..

As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion..

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their suff….

No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.].

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide..

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom..

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious..