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

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

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.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.