In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.