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.

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.