Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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.

Geological time is not money.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.