No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.

God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.