Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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.