Quotes from James Huneker

All men of action are dreamers.

Music alone is a vital force, an instrument for rescuing the world from its moral and spiritual decay.

What a sight the poor make in the moonlight!

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Married men make the best husbands.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

All men of action are dreamers.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.