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.

In a family, no matter how dysfunctional she is, when one member loses, when one becomes smaller, all lose, all end up becoming smaller.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable!

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.