It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.