I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

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!

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.