You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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