I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.