The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

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.

It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.

History is a symptom of our disease

Look around and see the wonderful beauty in the world around you.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.

God alone knows absolute Truth.