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.

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

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

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.