He only profits from praise who values criticism.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

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

The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.