The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.