No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

One thing I've found... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking.

The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.