Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.