The night comes stealing o'er me, And clouds are on the sea; While the wavelets rustle before me With a mystical melody.

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.

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

Celebrate every small achievement and gain strength for grandeur things.

You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.

We've all got stardust in our bones.

We can make, to ourselves, very much stronger suggestions than anyone else can, whoever that person may be.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.