The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.

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.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

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

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.