Heinrich Heine

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Where words leave off, music begins.

It is an ancient story_x000D_ _x000D_ Yet is it ever new.

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

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.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.