What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.