The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

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.

When you get in a snit, don't hit

All wealth is the product of labor.

I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.

To read is to voyage through time.

But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.

A woman can be in charge!

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.