Henri La Fontaine

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

I don't like to get in front of people.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.