I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.