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

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.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

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.