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

"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."

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

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

"When books are burned in the end people will be burned too."

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

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers."

"Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions."

"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners."

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."