Each Australian is a Ulysses.

And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.