No loose fish enters our quiet bay.
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.