Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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.