I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.