Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.