The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.