What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

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

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.