The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.