"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."

"The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council."

"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."

"If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift."

"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown."

"A little philosophy inclineth men's minds toward atheism; but depth of philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

"It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves."

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

"Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier."

"WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out."