He only profits from praise who values criticism.

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

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.

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

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.