Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.