Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. - Friedrich Schlegel

Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

If there is an invisible church, then it is of the great paradox, which is inseparable from morality, and which must be distinguished from the merely philosophical. People who are so eccentric that they are completely serious in being and becoming virtuous understand one another in everything, find one another easily, and form a silent opposition against the prevailing immorality that pretends to be morality. A certain mysticism of expression, which joined with romantic fantasy and grammatical understanding, can be something charming and good, often serves as a symbol of their beautiful secrets.