Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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.

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.