Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.