Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.