Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.