Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.