No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.
Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
God will pardon: That's His business.
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad
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