I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.