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.

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

What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

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

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.