The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

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

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.