The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.