If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe..

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time..

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman..

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove..

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl..

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men..

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses..

God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seco….

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess..

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe..

The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers….

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 great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. ….

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle..

Don't send a poet to London..

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress..

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play..

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith..

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky..

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder..

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?.