The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.

He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in read more

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being

Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being

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

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

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.