Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

There is only one universal passion fear.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.