There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.