The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.