The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

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

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

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.