Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.