He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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.

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.