The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

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.