Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

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.

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

Love is in your heart. If you search deeply you will find it.

You don't build a family by tearing down another one.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.