The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Change is the essence of life.

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.

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

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