A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.