Heinrich Heine

Where words leave off, music begins.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.

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.

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

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

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.