One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.