...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.

Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.