A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

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

When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

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.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

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

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.