A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

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.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

What lies lurk in kisses.