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.

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.