One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
“You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.”
“Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.”