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

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

Thought is invisible nature.

At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.