A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.