A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.
Heinrich HeineGreat genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
Heinrich HeineLike a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Heinrich HeineI have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.
Heinrich Heine