I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.