A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.