There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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.

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

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

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.