I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth and what we can enjoy in this life I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

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.

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.

I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21, 0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.

Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.