The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday
Actors are always going to have a little bit of themselves in everything.
I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won't be the last.
I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.