Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.