A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

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.

Talent is not sexually transmitted.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so much innocent pleasure.

Find your purpose by excavating and tying together the common threads of your happy memories by focusing on the emotions you felt.

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.