I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.