The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

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

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.