Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.