High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

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!