[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.
I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.