O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

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

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