If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.