Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

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.