Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

Querido Hiram - replicó mistress Otis - ¿qué podemos hacer con una mujer que se desmaya?Se lo descontaremos de su salario - respondió el Ministro-. Verás como no vuelve a desmayarse.

people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life,—simply a confession of failure.