Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

Children and fools always speak the truth