1. Cher's 19th studio album Heart of Stone (1989) was certified triple platinum by the RIAA.

2. Victorian London's Brattiest wit, Wilde once remarked, of Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop," that "one must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing." It would be stone-hearted to laugh at "The Happy Prince," but its level of sentimentality is nearly Dickensian.