"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

Heine, Heinrich on Experience
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"Of course God will forgive me; that's His job."

Heine, Heinrich on Forgiveness
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"God will forgive me, that's his business."

Heine, Heinrich on Forgiveness
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"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."

Heine, Heinrich on Genius
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"Oh what lies lurk in kisses!"

Heine, Heinrich on Kisses and Kissing
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"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world."

Heine, Heinrich on Language
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"Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented."

Heine, Heinrich on Marriage
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"In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress."

Heine, Heinrich on Newspapers
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"In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable."

Heine, Heinrich on Politicians and Politics
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"The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right."

Heine, Heinrich on Quarrels
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"Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."

Heine, Heinrich on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"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."

Heine, Heinrich on self-esteem
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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."

Heine, Heinrich on Action
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"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned."

Heine, Heinrich on Censorship
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"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind."

Heine, Heinrich on Adaptability
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"Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose."

Heine, Heinrich on Cries and Crying
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