The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.

[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.