To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.