Likewise, the national appetizer, brine-cured herring with raw onions, wins few friends, Germans excepted.

When I first arrived in this country I had only fifteen cents in my pocket and a willingness to compromise.

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. [If youth but knew, if old age but could.]

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.