"Too great seriousness is the most ludicrous thing of all, and too great modesty is the bitterest irony."

"The Jewish Nigger Lassalle is fortunately leaving at the end of this week... It is now completely clear to me that, as his cranial structure and hair texture prove, he descends from the Negroes who jo…"

"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."