Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.