We are all beggars, each in his own way.
The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
...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 law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.