When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Once I belonged to a group that really had THE WORD. I fought like hell for them. But another group came along and exposed the word of my group as shallow and degenerate. They had a better word. So I quit the first group and lost all the friends

A drama critic is a person who surprises a playwright by informing him what he meant.

We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it.

The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was cons

Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.

It's easier to take it apart than to put it back together.

Don't everyone thank me at once!

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying?

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Nothing succeeds like success.