"I like to read my own works, and I often praise them, though I know they are not worth a damn."

"I would rather be a good poet than a good man."

"Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous."

"O Monarchs, ye are crowned by will, and law of Man, not Nature's hand. Though ye above the people stand, eternal Law stands higher still."

"I have no respect for public opinion, and I despise the public."