Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

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

Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

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.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.