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!

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

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

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.