The beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
He who can does. He who can't teaches.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?
Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced d...
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only th...
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably...
Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness