If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddli...ng yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, bei...ng absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two--a proof of the decline of that country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every ration...al creature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have all... the plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bread-winner must toil as in the fruitless effort of a troubled dream while the expenditure of an uneducated wife discounts th...e income in the lack of understanding to discern the broad possibilities of an intelligent economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...wasting the energies of the race by neglecting to develop the intelligence of the members to whom its most precious resources m...ust be entrusted, already seems a childish absurdity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »