Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

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.

To remain standing one often has to fall.

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

Eternity - waste of time.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.