Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.