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

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

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

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.