Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.