Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided — Franz Grillparzer
A pious woman’s neighbor, a philanthropist’s child, a liberal’s servant–these three have — Franz Grillparzer
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment — Franz Grillparzer
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. — Franz Grillparzer
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible — Franz Grillparzer