If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.