Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.