Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.