Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.