How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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.