A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.