Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.