"The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle."

"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

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

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man B??cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)"

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."

"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."

"If the young only knew; if the old only could."

"He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good."

"An unpopular rule is never long maintained."

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."