There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.