God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.