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.

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

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

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.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.