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

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

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

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.