Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.