Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.