Franz Grillparzer

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

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.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

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