A womans mind is cleaner than a mans: She changes it more often. – Oliver Herford
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well. – Oliver Herford
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. – Oliver Herford
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. – Edgar Allan Poe