Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

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.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.