The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

You'll never have a quiet world til you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

There are two things necessary to salvation money and gunpowder.

Together they made the bed with me in it. That was new to me and an admirable proceeding.