Be good and you will be lonely.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.