War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.

Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life.

A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.