Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.