I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.