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.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.