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.

The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

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

I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.