A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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

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.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best