Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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

Property is organized robbery.

My way of joking is to tell the truth