Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
From H. L. Mencken
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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