"Self praise is no praise at all."

"In morality, I prefer Confucius to the ten Commandments and Socrates to St. Paul."

"I am a very bad dancer, and I hate to dance."

"All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith."

"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."