A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.