I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

It's so damned humiliating.