"I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds."

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and…"

"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much more of it."

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."