Franz Grillparzer

“If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.”

“No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.”

“Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.”

“I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.”

“To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.”

“If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.”

“Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.”

“This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.”