Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

In love, you pay as you leave.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.