Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.