"If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans."

"Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic."

"The truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."

"Universal suffrage is the dictatorship of the stable-boy."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."