Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.