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

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

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.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

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.