We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote