The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

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.

Of course women are flighty, I thought. We have more predators than men.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

Never memorize what you can look up in a book.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.