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

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.