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

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

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.

The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun.