The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

To be human is erroneous.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.