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.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.