"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)"

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.)"

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

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."

"In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail."

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade."

"I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."

"Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view."