We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.