Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

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.

A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it.

Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

I bend but I do not break.

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.