Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.