"To arrive at a just estimate of..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.”

“Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.”

“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.”

“I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.”

“Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.”

“The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”

“You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.”

“No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.”

“Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.”