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.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

True friends stab you in the front.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Hearts are made to be broken.