It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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

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.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

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.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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.