All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

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

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

He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.