I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.