I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.