Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.