Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.