Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.