A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.