When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.