Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil.

One of your most ancient writers, a historian named Herodotus, tells of a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: in one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns. The other prisoners wa

If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.