Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

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.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!