I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.