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.

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.