“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.”

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Conscience is God present in man.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

I am Envy, I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.