Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

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

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

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

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

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

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