Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

To be a champion you must live like one.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.