It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.