Rembrandt is not to be compared in the painting of character with our extraordinarily gifted English artist, Mr. Rippingille.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish.

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.

You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men

If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse.

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

... we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

A furore Normanorum libera nos, O Domine! [From the fury of the norsemen deliver us, O Lord!]

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.