If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

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.

You don’t have to do it all. If unrushing your life feels overwhelming or impossible, consider that it is impossible for you. That’s why we need God. Where you can’t, He already has.

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.

Each step is more difficult than the last

I may like easy choices, but I appreciate the difficult ones more.

When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.