Music is the perfect type of art.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I have a simple taste, only the best.