In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.