Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.