| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Gutzkow |
| | | Auf Wind und Meer gebautes Glück ist schwankend—The fortune is insecure that is at the mercy of wind and wave. | 1 |
| Die kranke Seele muss sich selber helfen—The sick soul must work its own cure (lit. help itself). | 2 |
| Ein Arzt darf auch dem Feind sich nicht entziehen—A physician may not turn his back even on an enemy. | 3 |
| Nur was wir selber glauben, glaubt man uns—People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. | 4 |
| O der Magnet des Wahns zieht mächtig—Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. | 5 |
| Talent has almost always this advantage (Vorsprung) over genius—that the former endures, the latter often explodes, or runs to waste (verpufft). | 6 |
| Talent ist Form, Genie Stoff—Talent is form, genius is substance. | 7 |
| There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us. | 8 | | |
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