The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

Children and fools always speak the truth

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.