Do right and you will be conspicuous.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.