If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.