The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.