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

The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

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

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.

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

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

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.