One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed

The Germans -- once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans mistrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things. . .

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing

Modest people have often reason to be.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs about them.