An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.