Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.
If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.