Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.