Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

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

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.