Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.