“High thoughts must have high language.”

“Open your mind before your mouth”

“Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.”

“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls”

“These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.”

“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.”

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times tha...”

“It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like ...”

“It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.”

“I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the sufferings of others I also have for my own. And so all my suffering is crushed...”