Moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. - Friedrich Schlegel

There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end.

Künstler ist ein jeder, dem es Ziel und Mitte des Daseyns ist, seinen Sinn zu bilden.

This perception—this comprehension—this right discernment of the great events and general results of universal history, is what might be termed a science of history; and I would have here preferred that term, were it not liable to much misconception, and might have been understood as referring more to special and learned inquiries, than the other name I have adopted...