In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.