Where words leave off, music begins.
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.
If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Don’t send a poet to London.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.