Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.